Pinto Beans And Cornbread appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Pinto Beans and Cornbread · Knoxville
The Appalachian comfort plate of slow-simmered pinto beans with country ham and a skillet of buttermilk cornbread, the most-resilient East Tennessee.
Pinto beans and cornbread is the foundational Appalachian working-class meal: protein, starch, salt and pork fat from the smokehouse, all in one pot, with the cornbread cracklin'd in a hot cast-iron skillet greased with bacon drippings. Sunspot on Cumberland Avenue, Litton's in Fountain City and Pete's downtown all run pinto-bean plates on the regular menu, the East Tennessee canon of the dish kept close to the country original.
Where to eat in Knoxville:
- Litton's Market and Restaurant
- Sunspot
- Pete's Restaurant and Coffee Shop